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WELCOME ADDRESS<br />

Lucila Izquierdo<br />

General Secretary of External and Institutional Relations<br />

CIEMAT<br />

Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain<br />

Ladies and Gentlemen,<br />

Dear Michel Hugon, Phillipe Savelli, dear participants,<br />

It is my pleasure, as Secretary of External and Institutional Relations of CIEMAT and in the name<br />

of its Director General, to welcome all of you to CIEMAT for the 6 th <strong>OECD</strong>/NEA Information<br />

Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation.<br />

We are glad that Madrid joins the list of cities that have hosted this series of meetings that started<br />

in Mito and have got consecutive success at Argonne, Cadarache and Mol.<br />

We would like to thank the organisers both NEA/OCDE and the European Commission for their<br />

invitation for the joint hosting of the meeting by CIEMAT and ENRESA (the Spanish body for<br />

radioactive waste management).<br />

CIEMAT is the Spanish Public Organism for Research and Technological Development<br />

supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology responsible of finding solutions to improve the<br />

use of resources and energy generation systems, to develop alternative energy sources and to solve the<br />

problems of the Spanish companies regarding energy and its effects on the environment.<br />

CIEMAT is largely involved in the research on future and present nuclear energy sources through<br />

the programmes of <strong>Nuclear</strong> Fusion and <strong>Nuclear</strong> Fission, whose activities include many projects related<br />

to the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle.<br />

At CIEMAT we find in Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) one very interesting element for<br />

the <strong>Nuclear</strong> Waste management. Ideally, it will allow to achieve large reduction on the inventories of<br />

long-lived radioactive wastes contained in the nuclear waste, in particular the actinides, reducing the<br />

concerns about our use of nuclear energy for future generations. Not to forget the positive effect on the<br />

public acceptance of nuclear waste management programmes and the potential capability to produce<br />

huge amounts of electricity.<br />

After the participation of CIEMAT in the FEAT and TARC experiments at CERN related to the<br />

<strong>Energy</strong> Amplifier project, already in 1994, the <strong>Nuclear</strong> Fission Department has initiated a wide P&T<br />

research programme in 1997.<br />

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